Chapter 427 (1/2)

Simon returned to New York on July 11 after a week in England, Finland and Italy.

AOL will be officially listed on NASDAQ on July 12.

In the previous two weeks of IPO roadshows, AOL caused a very strong response among investors across North America, with a cumulative subscription of more than 210 million shares, 9.5 times the IPO volume of AOL.

Meanwhile, in line with the IPO on July 12, AOL released the company's financial report for the second quarter of 1991 in advance on July 10.

As of June 31, AOL had 3.63 million official users in the most prosperous regions of the East and west coasts of the United States, up 56% from the previous quarter. In the three months from April 1 to June 31, AOL's revenue reached $270 million, up 137% from the first quarter.

Although the quarterly loss reached $160 million, no one can ignore AOL's explosive growth.

At six o'clock in the morning, Simon woke up at the villa in the northern suburb of Greenwich on time.

The woman in her arms opened her eyes quickly because of Simon's action. She was confused for a short time, and her face was a little shy.

Simon couldn't help pinching Sophia Fischer's ruddy face when she woke up and said, ”would you like to go to Manhattan with me?”

Sophia didn't get away from the man's hand. She just pressed it gently and said, ”I'll go back to my home later.”

Yesterday, I flew over from Italy with Simon. Because I was greedy, I didn't have the first time to see my children. This is also the reason why the woman was embarrassed just now.

Simon just laughed and said, ”in that case, you can sleep a little longer.”

Sophia put her head on the pillow and watched the man put on his clothes. Then she got up, and the sheets slipped behind, revealing an attractive spring. Seeing Simon look at him, he can't help but raise his hand and cover it. In his expectant eyes, he pretends to put it down inadvertently and slowly looks for his clothes to put on.

Simon washes and walks downstairs. Alice, the housekeeper, and Claire, the c-girl, have prepared breakfast with the other girls.

The two women will attend the IPO bell ringing ceremony with Simon today, just before they officially go to the stage.

There has been a lot of speculation about Simon's increasingly low-key private life, including the beautiful girls around him. The two women's going to the stage this time will certainly attract some comments, but this is also the experience they have to bear. It's better to let the public get used to something early than to expose it at the last minute.

After breakfast and saying goodbye to Sophia, Simon and his party set out for Manhattan.

I have experienced the bell ringing ceremony of blockbuster's listing, and I am familiar with it this time.

However, this time, more procedures will be arranged than last time, including the media interview Simon will personally give before the bell ringing ceremony.

AOL's IPO has obviously attracted more media attention.

Simon's car just appeared outside the headquarters of the Nasdaq Stock Exchange in midtown Manhattan. A large group of reporters gathered around him, and several TV stations' live interview cars were parked around him.

The bodyguards get out of the car first. A group of four surround Simon and the two women who follow him to get out of the car. There are four other bodyguards outside to support the crowd and force Simon to enter the exchange.

The reporters around raised all kinds of questions without any response, so they quickly adjusted their strategies and madly pressed the shutter on Simon, especially the two women who followed him today.

Some people even began to guess the identity of the two women, and even talked about the idea of marriage.

But, of course, that's the only way to think.

If you don't have any concrete evidence to write your idea in the newspaper, you'll probably have to wait for westrow to sue you for bankruptcy.

Some time ago, the super tycoon just put a few young people in bankruptcy, although things are basically done by Janet, the outside world naturally attributed these to Simon.

James Leibold, Steve case, Jeff Bezos, Carol Bartz, John Chambers, Raymond Smith and other senior members of the westroth system attended the bell ringing ceremony.

Today's IPO, as AOL's chairman and CEO, Steve case is only the nominal protagonist. We all know that a young person is the focus of attention.

With the continuous outbreak of the Internet industry, more and more people see Simon's brilliant layout in this new high-tech field in just a few years.

Microsoft, Intel, Oracle, Cisco, AOL, igrit, and even Bell Atlantic, which has been officially renamed Verizon Telecom, are all like this.

Among them, Cisco, AOL and igrit have formed a whole Internet industry chain of Internet equipment providers, Internet service providers and Internet content providers. The three companies jointly created a popular World Wide Web standard, which has gained overwhelming popularity in less than two years. Other similar enterprises have no time to follow up and participate in the competition.Many people expect that Cisco, AOL or igrit will become a big Mac in the future.

As a result, AOL, one of the three companies, has received far more attention than Simon's blockbuster listing at the beginning of last year.

It's not a time for greetings. It's eight o'clock. After a brief greeting, everyone starts to do their own business.

Simon was also led into the interview area of the exchange by the staff. This interview will be broadcast live on ABC, NBC, CBS and other mainstream TV networks as well as the morning news program of New York local TV station.

The interview time is only ten minutes, and each reporter is only allowed to ask one question.

Because it was one of Simon westero's rare public interviews, everyone cheered up.

Simon sat down on one of the two sofas in the interview area, next to Richard seaman, a vice president of the Nasdaq stock exchange who was the host himself.

After a brief preparation, the vice president took the lead in saying, ”Simon, such an opportunity is really rare, so how about giving me a chance to ask questions first?”

Simon nodded with a smile and said, ”sure, but you've already asked, so next.”